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TFAbstract says that WPA2 can be cracked with brute force search, and that long passwords are more secure than short ones. Looking up the home pages of these internationally renowned researchers http://www.brunel.ac.uk/bbs/pe... http://issel.ee.auth.gr/people... http://www.research.lancs.ac.u... reveals that these three claim no other security-focused publications. But perhaps I'm too quick to judge. Somebody pay the man and read their paper. Or is this the two-step get-rich-quick scheme?: - (1) Publish Paywalled Article Exposing Security Holes in Commonly-Used Security Protocol (2) Profit! (PPAESHiCUSP-P)

THE VISION OF "GREATER MACEDONIA"

If you have no time to read all of it, you may at least click on the Figure links, and read the captions.

Granted, this is not territorial disputes through official channels (yet), but the raw material is there for this to occur, if it does not stop now.

I did recently some very back-of-the-envelope comparisons of Greek companies, and it looked like that the pre-tax profit margin was ~25-35% for the Software and Consultant sector, while the rest were less than 8%. However, I have absolutely no clue as to the taxation of corporations here, only that the income tax of individuals is (after a certain income) at least 30%. Oh, And that I mandatorily pay €236.00/Mo for Retirement and Healthcare (that does not include dental...).

They do this all the time. Mars Pathfinder represented an "ultimate test" of the imaging capabilities of global surveyor, and they have quite a few images to prove it. Have a look here to see a good example. Unfortunately, with a resolution of 1.5 meters per pixel, the rover would be far to small to be visible.

what, you mean because linux gives him a woody?

Is there really any Windows app I need?

Well, it is a DOS app, but X-COM UFO Defense is a great reason to put VPC on a Mac!

However, my position is that word of mouth has always been among the most powerful means of advertising and the least compensated, monetarily. Accordingly, the legacy financial models of entertainment distribution seem to violate fundamental principles of economics. Those who are creating value in the form of word of mouth marketing and sales have not ever received their proper cut.

Enter Napster, creating vastly more perfect market information in this regard. I think that it should be incumbent upon the entertainment industry to keep up with the times and create new business models that spur technology rather than defending oligopolies and stifling innovation.

In the meantime, we the community must scatter in a number or random directions now that the feds have effectively shackled Napster.

I feel really bad for Shawn, but the only way to keep the spirit alive is to abaondon Napster altogether and go somewhere else ... and we must keep migrating and scattering like this until the feds get the hint that file sharing is not going away simply because the RIAA pays them to prop up their anachronistic institution.

Here are some starter ideas - LET A MILLION NAPSTERS BLOOM!

Hotline
Gnutella
Fidelio - Hotline for Linux
Gnucleus - Another Gnutella for windoze
BearShare - Another Gnutella for windoze
Aimster
And lots more on ZeroPaid

You are painfully ignorant of the history of Linux and BSD, and are blaming Linus for something that is not his fault.

See A Brief History of FreeBSD for some of the gory details of how FreeBSD got started, out of personal and legal fights over the old 386BSD code in 1993. FreeBSD didn't get fully clear of the legal problems until December 1994.

Meanwhile, Linus started writing Linux in 1991, and he did so because there was no freely available Unix-like operating system for x86. For heavens sake, Red Hat had already been founded by the time FreeBSD had a clear legal status!

So don't blame Linus for not working on BSD. He did NOT fail us miserably. (By the way, I have nothing against BSD - I use FreeBSD at work, and have an OpenBSD machine at home.)

And what's with your attitude that people should do what's best for the community? What community? Who decides what's best for the community? You? A system like that really would deserve the label "communism" that Free Software has been unjustly stuck with.

Free Software has historically been about people writing software that "scratches their own itch". If somebody's itch is to play DOOM on their camera, who the hell gives anyone else the right to say they should be doing something else?

God forbid that we end up with an "Open Source Community" that tells people what to do.


Torrey Hoffman (Azog)

I found that instmon and installwatch, together, let you extend Slackware's package management tools to your own compiled programs (installed via make install).

Just place the log file generated by instmon into /var/log/packages, and write a small program to strip the leading slashes and to add "FILE LIST:" as the first line of the log file (I use an awk script), and you're set. You can use removepkg to uninstall the resulting package.

Fair comment. At most though, this makes Linux look either six months older or NT look four years younger, as elucidated below, neither of which helps the Linux "case." On the Linux side, see one of the Linus-authored Linux history files around the net for a definitive discussion of Linux in 1991-1992. To summarize, even Linus doesn't remember or have records about exactly when the very first work occurred. But I've never seen any suggestion that he was working on it in 1990. It's clear that he had a few device drivers and the hard disk support in the kernel working in July 1991 and posted his first USENET request for POSIX specs around then. The first code release, a privately emailed notice of 0.01 source-only came in mid-September 1991 (hence the current 8th-year celebration.)

So back to your question, what are the comparisons for (a) start dates and (b) release dates for as close as you can get apples-to-apples comparisons?
a) In terms of start dates, defined as "first work on the kernel", it's slightly pre-July 1991 for Linux and October 1988 for NT. 8-8.5 yrs (Linux) vs. 11 yrs (NT)

b) In terms of release dates, defined as first release to outside parties, this comes with Linux 0.01 in mid-Sept 1991 and with NT on July 5-6th 1992 according to my local NT guru. (For the pedantically challenged, note this is a Linux source release vs. NT binary release. For a "cleaner" apples-to-apples comparison, the first Linux binary release was on October 5, 1992.) In any case, that makes Linux older! 8 yrs (Linux) vs. 7.25 yrs (NT)

Other issues such as conceptual origin, DOS/VMS code and GNU/X code discussed elsewhere in this thread. Is the pedantic geek in you satisfied now?

--LinuxParanoid

"Those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it" (or in this case, misinterpret it and act/fail-to-act based on resulting misperceptions.)